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Found Jacob Yehl as Jacob Yale, a sergeant major under Col. Sedman in Series 5 of the PA Archives thru Family Geneology, altho the info is also on this site. non-stated militia converted to colonial army in 1778 in Pa. I believe his DOB is wrong.

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This is my father. Dad entered the Merchant Marines as a teenager and later enlisted in the Army-Air Corps. After WWII he went home for about 18 months and re-enlisted at his previous rank, Tecjh Srgt. in what by then was the U.S. Airforce. Eventually he became a Master Sgt. He was offered Officer's Training School but could not accept for personal reasons. He mustered out in Fall 1965. Receiving a Medal of Commendation authorized by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. He also was awarded a number of other medals between WWII and 1965. He was a natural leader and always had "a bunch of guys around him" although he wouldn't brag about anything he did. He had several close calls, including a missile that flew across the deck of a ship, grazing his ear and killing his best friend. He always said " I've been around the world one -and-a-half times , and it's enough!"

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Statement 2nd paragraph near top of page is signed "Jacob Wilt Senior". I believe that James Nunnemacher (Nonemaker) and Wilt were both on the same march up the East coast after my ancestor Captain Jacob Yehl/Yale was furloughed (he was not discharged as another pension application mentions enlisting with him in Northampton Co. Pa in April 1782; he was in the military from 1775-1783 and possibly
earlier). Wilt moved to Northampton Co, Whitehall township around 1779 (and ended up staying there) and about two years laterenlisted under Jacob Yehl in Philadelphia. He reported doing duty as a wagon team leader after Yale was furloughed and later followed Capt (Conrad) Roerich (later Rehrig, Rearick etc) to New England. These names continue to link up; I imagine they were all in the German or "Dutch" Battalion until it dissolved in Jan 1781 and went into other battalions. Wilt, for instances, becomes a wagon/packhorse team leader in winter 1782; George Focht says he was a "packhorse" driver under Capt. Jacob Yehl.
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Captain Jacob Yale/Yehl was furloughed in 1781(but was in active duty until 1783); per the pension declaration of Jacob Speth, who mentions Nonnemacher in his 1833 Declarton for pension, Speth served under Jacob Yehl, enlisting with him in then Northampton Co, Pa in April 1782 for 9 months;from other statements Yale/Yehl mustered out in 1783 (at the end of the war). the earliest record that I
located for him to date is a petition signed Sept. 1, 1775 as "Serg-t Major Yale" (transcribed as Yall) with 89 other men, requesting that a neighbor be allowed to run a tavern on his property, this from an abstract from the Northampton Co. court Miscellaneous court records. He would have been in the PA Militia then.He signed the Oath and Allegiance on June 23, 1777 listed in Plainfield Township, Northampton Co, PA. In another court document of 7 Oct. 1805 he is listed as "yeoman" (farmer) his property said to be house and lot adjoining lots of Wm Tilghman, esquire, road from Philadelphia to Blue Mountains, 60 feet by 230 feet. " This makes sense as Plainfield township is in the area now known as Nazareth, PA. In 1797 he sold 60 acres of land to Peter Handwerk.
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One of several pension requests mentioning my ancestor, Capt. Jacob Yale/Yehl of Northampton (later Lehigh) County, among others. Apparently he was well remembered. Looking for a mention of what battalion he was attached to. After Jan 1, 1781 there was no more German Battalion.

UNOFFICIAL Transcription of: Fold3 Image # 2847300 PAGE
RE: Jacob Wilt of Northampton County, Emaus, PA
By Valerie Alpha 2014 (Unofficial Transcription
• I have tried at all times to spell and use grammar as originally stated
• Occasionally I correct the spelling of names after researching for historical purposes; always indicated somehow. This was done purely as an aid to Fold3 members like
myself who want to read them.
Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of
June 7, 1832
On the(faded)day November
A.D. 1833, personally, appeared before me justice of the peace in and for the county, of Lehigh and State of Pennsylvania, Jacob Wilt a resider of Emaus and county and state aforesaid aged about ninety years old being ,first sworn according to law do I here on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of congress passed June 7, 1832. That I had enlisted in the service of the United States under the following named officers and union stated.
I enlisted under Captain Jacob Yale, Sometime in the month of April. the Y.C.[Year of Christ] 1781 as a Continental Soldier, in Philadelphia and state of Pennsylvania as a private, during the whole term & I was honorably discharged by Gen. Rochenbeau (sic), I think, at Philadelphia in fourth Street, sometime in the month of January, A.D. 1783, and further do despose and Say that I led athe keel? To the French Army unite Col. Weis of the Continental Lines, Col. Weis under the command of the Brigade & Regiment & Gen. Lafayette was Commanderinchief, I was taken from Philadelphia to the state of Virginia, at Williamsburg, and there I was we* (inserted) were attached to the French Army, Under Captain Jacob Yale, who took charge of the company, and I got sick & Col. Weis wanted me to go back to the hospital, but I went to Captain Jacob Yale or Yehl and he Said I Should Stay, with him, I Should not go to the Hospital, he would keep me, and then they told me to go back about forty miles to the Chesapeake bay. There lived a German man there. I should Stay until I recovered again to a perfect State of health. after it had occurred a little, I received orders to return back to Williamsburg , there I put up my tent along Side the Public Road , to here I staid until the army returned from Yorktown, after the capture of Lord Cornwallis, there they passed us. Two days afterwards, we followed them on to Baltimore in the state of Maryland and there we laid about three weeks, in the
END PAGE 1, (43) of Wilt, Jacob, Declaration
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